I hereby give My Sanction to Materials Demand and Supply Reconciliation Committee Ordinance and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fifth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 5, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo
Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro
Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari
Minister of Transportation HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro
Imperial Ordinance No. 521
Materials Demand and Supply Reconciliation Committee Ordinance
Article 1. Materials Demand and Supply Reconciliation Committe (hereinafter to be called the Committee) shall come under the supervision of the competent Minister in Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Temporary Materials Demand and Supply Adjustment Act and shall make a decision for the public interest making fair investigation and deliberation on the application filed by those who have complaint against the decision of the allocation of materials made by the Industrial Association in accordance with the provisions of Article 2, paragraph 1, of the same Act.
Article 2. The Committee shall be composed of the Triumvirate, selected for each case.
Concerning the members of the preceding paragraph, the three kinds of persons mentioned in the following shall select each members:
1. The complainant against the decision of the allocation of materials made by the Industrial Association,
2. The Industrial Association,
3. Those who were chosen by each of the two preceding items.
Article 3. Those who have complaint against the decision of the allocation of materials made by the Industrial Association shall select a member of Committee within 5 days from the receipt of the notification of allocation according to the paragraph 2 of the preceding Article, and notify the Industrial Association concerned to that effect and of the reason of complaint.
Upon receipt of such notice, the Industrial Association concerned shall select, without delay, member of committee according to the paragraph 2 of the preceding Article and shall notify the person selected in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph to that effect.
Persons selected in accordance with the provisions in the preceding two paragraphs shall, without delay, after the receipt of such notice indicated in the preceding paragraph, select a member of committee according to the paragraph 2 of the preceding Article.
The committee shall be regarded as formed at the time when a person in the preceding paragraph is selected, and that person shall assume the chairmanship.
When the committee is formed, those who have complaint against the decision of the allocation of materials made by the Industrial Association shall file an application for complaint within 5 days after the formation of the committee.
Article 4. The decision of the committee shall be made within 10 days from the receipt of application, by a resolution of a majority vote of members.
Article 5. In case where the committee made a necessary decision for a case, the chairman shall report the contents of the decision to the competent Minister.
The committee shall be regarded as dissolved when the report indicated in the preceding paragraph has been submitted.
Article 6. The expenses entailed by the Committee, within the limit of ¥500.00, shall be borne by the complainant, while the sum over the said limit by the competent Industrial Association. However, in the case where the price of the materials forming the contents of the claims of the complainant is over that of the materials forming the contents of the decision of the allocation of materials made by the Industrial Association, when 3 per cent of the excess is not over ¥500.00, the said sum shall be borne by the complainant.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.